Authorities are investigating a murder-suicide involving an Eastern Shore family.Deputies with the Queen Anne's County Sheriff Office were called at 9 p.m. Thursday to a home in the 100 block of Woodstock Road in Chestertown in reference to a 911 hang-up, officials said.Arriving deputies met with the female caller outside the residence, who appeared to be upset and injured, officials said.The woman told deputies that she and her husband, Charles Frank Walter Jr., 54, became involved in a physical domestic altercation, and that he had shot her son, Kenneth Preston Johnson Jr., 36, and that her son was still in the home, authorities said.Deputies at the scene then saw Walter outside the home armed with a pistol, which was placed under his chin, officials said.Deputies ordered him to surrender peacefully, but he fled and barricaded himself in a shed at the far end of the property.Deputies secured a perimeter around the shed, and then entered the home to check the welfare of the woman’s son, who was found dead on a bedroom floor with what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said.The woman was taken to Chester River Hospital in Chestertown Maryland for treatment.Members of the Sheriff's Office SWAT team were able to breach the shed, where the suspect was barricaded and found him dead with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Residents in the area were asked to shelter in place for safety during the incident.Also on WBALTV.com:

CHESTERTOWN, Md. —

Authorities are investigating a murder-suicide involving an Eastern Shore family.

Deputies with the Queen Anne's County Sheriff Office were called at 9 p.m. Thursday to a home in the 100 block of Woodstock Road in Chestertown in reference to a 911 hang-up, officials said.

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Arriving deputies met with the female caller outside the residence, who appeared to be upset and injured, officials said.

The woman told deputies that she and her husband, Charles Frank Walter Jr., 54, became involved in a physical domestic altercation, and that he had shot her son, Kenneth Preston Johnson Jr., 36, and that her son was still in the home, authorities said.

Deputies at the scene then saw Walter outside the home armed with a pistol, which was placed under his chin, officials said.

Deputies ordered him to surrender peacefully, but he fled and barricaded himself in a shed at the far end of the property.

Deputies secured a perimeter around the shed, and then entered the home to check the welfare of the woman’s son, who was found dead on a bedroom floor with what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said.

The woman was taken to Chester River Hospital in Chestertown Maryland for treatment.

Members of the Sheriff's Office SWAT team were able to breach the shed, where the suspect was barricaded and found him dead with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Residents in the area were asked to shelter in place for safety during the incident.